wire cutters

See also: wirecutters

English

Noun

Wire cutters with insulated handles

wire cutters pl (normally plural, singular wire cutters)

1. A hand tool resembling pliers, intended for cutting wires.

Synonyms

• diagonal pliers
• diags
• side cutters

Translations

hand tool

• Arabic: قَاطِعُ الْأَسْلَاك m (qāṭiʕu l-ʔaslāk)
• Czech: štípací kleště f pl, štipky (cs) f pl
• Dutch: draadschaar (nl) f
• Finnish: sivuleikkurit (fi) pl
• French: pince coupante (fr) f
• German: Seitenschneider (de) m
• Greek: κόφτης (el) m (kóftis)
• Italian: tronchese (it) f or m, tronchese a taglio laterale f or m
• Japanese: ニッパー (nippā)
• Portuguese: alicate de corte diagonal m
• Russian: куса́чки (ru) f pl (kusáčki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: sečice f pl

• Spanish: cortaalambres m, alicates de corte m pl, alicates de corte lateral m pl
• Swedish: sidavbitare (sv) c, avbitartång (sv)